Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perennial item about President Eliot now comes to us in this form: "President Eliot says the lowest sum which a student can spend a year at Harvard is $650. But if he wants to live with a fair degree of comfort he ought to have...
...students' minds would be avoided. In this same way, after a notice is some weeks old, it would be just as well that it should be removed. It would be a little hard to lose such old friends after seeing them day in and day out, but public comfort positively demands it, and, in as much as they are of no use to the community, they must be sacrificed...
...external appearance of the building. Indeed he has most happily succeeded in uniting the appearance of a memorial building with the grandeur of a school designed for the student of the law. But in his desire to make the outside imposing he has not neglected the convenience and comfort of those who are to use it, so that after the 1st of September, 1883, the Harvard law student will no longer be obliged to point out to the visitor the diminutive Dane Hall as the law school of America's largest university...
Professor Comfort, of Syracuse University, in a lecture said that Princeton College allowed more disgraceful conduct in the class room than any other college in this country. The professor said this after having been an instructor there for a short time, and added that Dr. McCosh and the rest of the faculty remained there only at the sacrifice of their manhood...
...these curtains are kept in constant motion, bulging out into the room like white-waistcoated aldermen in summer, and driven against the windows in winter by drafts of half heated air from one of Hawkins.' "self-feeding, self-cleaning giant furnaces." This furnace is a source of great comfort and rest to the Butterfield family. I say rest advisedly, for "change" is "rest," and the infinite variety of changes of this furnace makes it almost equal to a summer vacation and shows conclusively that Plato's statement was made without regard to furnaces. There are registers in four...